Is a basement in a single-family house useful or rather too expensive?

No, I have a basement and a garden shed, but also 2000m². How cramped it is for you, I don't know. Maybe you are happy about every m² of open green space.

Again: Everything is possible, whatever you want, you have to know that yourself - what you need as well.

Well, I told you, now the trench warfare is starting again. I'll make myself scarce here in the thread before someone tries to talk me out of my existing basement.

Laundry can very well be dried in the basement! We have our utility room in the basement and connected to the ventilation system (exhaust air). This way, the moisture problem can be managed. Almost everyone here in BY has a basement, and I wouldn't know why the technology should be relocated to the valuable ground floor: solar thermal storage, battery storage photovoltaic, heating, washing machine, electrical distributor, house connections. In addition, there are not exactly used decorative items, winter clothes, possibly a sauna and so on ... as storage room, technical room, utility room and perhaps also living space, the basement is cheaper than the ground floor or attic ... if you are not allowed to build "upstairs" anymore, then it's definitely cheaper than larger plots of land.

... and creates freedoms in the areas where you live.

That's what it's about. Most stuff (not only) in the basement is neither needed nor does it contribute to the joy of living. So get rid of it instead of building a space for it.

Clothes in the closet, tools in the utility room, vehicles in the garage or a shed.

We take at most 30% of our "possessions" with us when moving into the new house. The rest is given away, donated, sold, or disposed of.

Laundry in the basement, lawnmower down the outside stairs into the basement, car tires and bicycles in the basement. Sounds like a workout. When I see how basements are used at parents’ or parents-in-law’s, they seem quite superfluous. There is no oil tank or wood storage in modern houses anymore. Potatoes, leeks, onions, and hundreds of [Weck] jars are no longer stored either. Washing machine and dryer have moved into the living spaces – laundry tourism becomes exhausting. For us, the question of a basement as storage space never arose. The property doesn’t allow it. Probably blasting would have been necessary. The basement must allow for the property, and it is a personal decision.

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Well, I told you, now the frontline war is starting again. I'll make myself scarce here in the thread before someone tries to talk me out of my existing basement.

But you do realize that so far you are doing everything to cause a "frontline war" instead of a factual discussion? This is expressed, for example, by the fact that you relate counterarguments to your personal situation ("someone tries to talk me out of my existing basement"). This is not about you at all right now, so there is no reason to feel attacked.

I myself prefer to store things close to the place where they are needed, and I don't want to carry them up and down stairs either. Bicycles belong upstairs as well as crates of drinks or clothes in a wardrobe. I don't need them downstairs, but upstairs. Therefore, I am against basements as storage rooms. If someone has hobbies, a sports room or something like that, then a basement can be useful.